JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A former Jacksonville Housing Authority employee is facing a felony charge, accused of stealing thousands of dollars from senior residents living in Centennial Tower in Springfield.<\/p>\n
Annie Marie Grant was arrested in June after a City of Jacksonville Office of Inspector General Investigation concluded she stole thousands of dollars from residents living in the high-rise senior community.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n According to a release from the OIG, Grant deposited at least $10,625 worth of money orders given to her by residents to pay their rent into her own financial accounts between May 2021 and April 2022.<\/p>\n Barbara Shader has lived in Centennial Tower for several years and told Action News Jax she had heard rumors of an employee stealing rent.<\/p>\n \u201cI heard about it after the fact. You know, and I just couldn\u2019t believe it. It was like, how could they be so low?\u201d Shader said.<\/p>\n The Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office police report on its investigation into Grant suggests she may have stolen even more than prosecutors were able to charge her with.<\/p>\n The report states JHA reported using $17,522.50 of agency funds to rectify unprocessed rent payments that were believed to have been stolen by Grant.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ex-JHA employee, Annie Grant, was terminated from her position in FY 2022 for theft. JHA is requesting full restitution and prison time for Grant,\u201d said a JHA spokesperson in an emailed statement. \u201cJHA will not tolerate any form of theft by current or former employees or vendors, and will continue to investigate crimes and seek prosecution, including but not limited to prison time.\u201d<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n Upon hearing of Grant\u2019s arrest, Shader told us she was relieved.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean you did it to the poorest people around. You know, we can\u2019t afford to pay our rent twice. You know, we\u2019re lucky to do it once,\u201d Shader said.<\/p>\n And Shader said she believes lessons have been learned.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got some good people in there now that, you know, we aren\u2019t too worried about it,\u201d Shader said.<\/p>\n Grant has pleaded not guilty. Her next court date is set for August 18.<\/p>\n Action News Jax has learned that the OIG discovered in early 2024 that the former CEO of JHA, Dwayne Alexander, knew about an employee theft but never reported it to the OIG. It\u2019s unclear if that case was the same one involving Grant.<\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A former Jacksonville Housing Authority employee is facing a felony charge, accused of stealing thousands…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":955008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,384188,384190,384189,384187,384186,384192,384193,3188,723,6139,13819,7310,50214,3005,174645,48916,49633,8423,425,60610,384191,10427,290,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-955007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-anne_marie_grant","tag-annie_grant","tag-barbara_shader","tag-centennial_tower","tag-centennial_towers","tag-chater","tag-dwayne_alexander","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-grant","tag-jackson","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville_housing_authority","tag-jake","tag-jake_stofan","tag-jake_stowan","tag-jha","tag-jso","tag-local","tag-oig","tag-shader","tag-springfield","tag-state","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}